Friday, April 20, 2012

Nicholas Sparks: Who Dies? The Lucky One Edition

  Disclaimer: It goes without saying, you shouldn't read this post if you haven't seen the movie and knowing the deceased party will ruin it for you.  Also, you probably shouldn't read it if you think The Notebook is one the most romantic books/ movies ever.   

Author Nicholas Sparks has another movie adaptation out (just in time for Mother's Day!).  I know what you're thinking- all of his plots are the same!  A couple falls in love, they hang out a lot on North Carolina beaches, kiss passionately in the rain, and at least one person dies.  But don't be so cynical.  The Lucky One is completely different!  It takes place in Louisiana not North Carolina!

Premise: The Lucky One follows hunky Marine Logan Thibault (Zach Efron), who finds a picture of a beautiful woman in the dirt while fighting in Iraq.  He plans on returning the picture to its owner, but it doesn't appear to have one.  However, Logan becomes extremely lucky after finding the picture- even surviving a deadly battle that killed two of his friends.  When his third tour of duty is over, he decides to track down the woman in the picture to thank her.  But once he meets the woman- a spunky, single mom named Beth (Taylor Schilling), he decides to romance her instead.  Because that isn't creepy at all! And then they probably hang out a lot on the beach and lock lips in the rain and all that other boring stuff that happens in Nicholas Sparks books. But let's get to the important question- who dies?  (Serious spoiler alerts after the jump!)

Who Dies:  Isn't it obvious?  Hunky Marine Logan has been dead the whole time?  He died in battle and is really a ghost.  No, no, no...I'm just kidding (but wouldn't that be awesome?).  Beth's jerky ex-husband (Jay R. Ferguson aka. Stanley Cooper Draper Price's art director Stan Rizzo on Mad Men) dies saving his and Beth's son.  See he wasn't all bad!  And Beth can live happily every after with her stalker...er..soulmate!  Aww!

For more Nicholas Sparks spoilers, check out my earlier blog post. Or for you are really in the mood to cry, read the book first.